MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- The St. Catherine softball team picked up a pair of Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) wins on Saturday at Augsburg University. St. Catherine improves to 8-6 overall with a conference record of 3-1 after today's sweep of the Auggies. 

GAME ONE | St. Catherine 9, Augsburg 1 (5 innings)
Junior Angela Heupfel picked up where she left off in the Wildcats last game hitting another three-run home run in the top of the first inning driving junior Alex Ehde and sophomore Taylor Brunn across the plate. 

The Auggies scored their lone run in the bottom of the first inning before St. Kate's tallied six runs in the top of the second. In total, seven Wildcats' record runs in the five inning game led by Brunn and Huepfel, each with two. Huefpel was 3 for 3 with two runs, five RBI, one home run, and a double. 

Kathryn Proper earned the win in the circle in game one pitching four innings facing 19 batters with four strikeouts. 

GAME TWO | St. Catherine 11, Augsburg 3
St. Kate's had a season high 18 hits on game two against the Auggies led by junior Lindsay Burr going 4 for 4 with three runs and one RBI. The Wildcats and Auggies were scoreless until the top of the third when Ehde brought sophomore Julia Azure in to get on the board. 

Junior Annabelle Schutte's double to left center brought two across the plate in the fourth before St. Kate's tallied a four-run fifth inning. The Auggies tallied two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning plus one more in the bottom of the sixth. The Wildcats went onto add four more runs in the sixth and seventh innings for the victory. 

Schutte claims the win pitching four innings with four strikeouts and zero runs. First-year Erica Pronschinske records the save making her debut appearing in the circle for three innings. 

St. Kate's is on the road again on Sunday traveling to Concordia College-Moorhead for a MIAC doubleheader at 1 & 3 pm.